Once you create a vault, the Azure Backup service discovers the storage accounts that can be registered with the vault.

The vault gives you a consolidated view of the backups configured across different workloads. The first step in configuring backup for Azure file shares is creating a Recovery Services vault. Even if a malicious actor deletes the file share, the file share’s contents and recovery points (snapshots) are retained for a configurable retention period, allowing the successful and complete recovery of source contents and snapshots with no data loss. Protection against accidental deletion of file shares: Azure Backup enables the soft delete feature on a storage account level with a retention period of 14 days.Alerting and reporting: You can configure alerts for backup and restore failures and use the reporting solution provided by Azure Backup to get insights on backups across your files shares.Instant restore: Azure file share backup uses file share snapshots, so you can select just the files you want to restore instantly.Built in management capabilities: You can schedule backups and specify the desired retention period without the additional overhead of data pruning.Customized retention: You can configure backups with daily/weekly/monthly/yearly retention according to your requirements.Zero infrastructure: No deployment is needed to configure protection for your file shares.This simple, reliable, and secure solution enables you to configure protection for your enterprise file shares in a few simple steps with an assurance that you can recover your data in any disaster scenario. The Azure Backup service smoothly integrates with Azure File Sync, and allows you to centralize your file share data as well as your backups. Azure file share backup is a native, cloud based backup solution that protects your data in the cloud and eliminates additional maintenance overheads involved in on-premises backup solutions.

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